David Rasche (born August 7, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actor. He started in theatre, but also has appeared on numerous movies and television series. He became a member of the Chicago Second City, after John Belushi moved on to Saturday Night Live. In 1974, he fronted $1,000 to help start Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. His most famous role by far, is the title role in the late 1980s series Sledge Hammer!: Rasche's inimitable performance as a violent and chauvinistic cop earned him rave reviews and the series is considered a cult classic. A few years earlier, an almost unrecognizable Rasche played a nuclear terrorist in the groundbreaking 1983 TV movie Special Bulletin.
He had a minor role as a photographer in the movie Cobra alongside Brigitte Nielsen. He also starred in the early-'90s NBC sitcom Nurses.
Rasche has a scholarly background (graduate degree from the University of Chicago) and also worked as a teacher and writer before going into showbusiness full-time...
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Teddy Bears' Picnic is a 2002 film directed and written by Harry Shearer. It was released in May, 2002 to limited audiences. Shearer has a small role.
The plot of the movie is based on the Bohemian Grove, where, since 1872, prominent male leaders in world politics, business, media, and finance, have gathered at a very private, very exclusive retreat located in a secluded redwood grove in Sonoma County, California outside San Francisco and, among other things,allegedly plan how they can run the world in secret. Rampant homosexual activity is also alleged, specifically the more recent involvement of gay adult film star Chad Savage. While historically an all-male venue, women have recently been given jobs at the club, albeit in low-level positions such as parking attendants and kitchen staff. The annual encampment is marked by the "Cremation of Care" ceremony, in which a human effigy dubbed "dull care" is cremated by priests on an altar in front of a large stone owl statue.
In Teddy...
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Bingo is a 1991 American family comedy film.Bingo, a runaway circus dog who leaves the big top, saves the life of Chuckie (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.), a young boy who is having trouble fitting in with his pals. The two quickly become best friends - skateboarding, playing pinball, and doing math homework together. But Chuckie's parents discover the stowaway pooch and make no bones about the fact that Bingo will not accompany them on their cross-country move....,
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Masters of Menace is a 1990 comedy film about a motorcycle gang.
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Wicked Stepmother is the title of a 1989 film by writer/director/producer Larry Cohen. It is best known for being legendary screen veteran Bette Davis' last film. Davis left before the film was finished, forcing extensive rewrites. The result is a somewhat confusing story about a young vegetarian couple (Colleen Camp and David Rasche) who returns from a holiday and discovers that her father (Lionel Stander) has married Miranda, a chainsmoking witch (Bette Davis) who has stuffed their fridge full of meat and rearranged their collection of herbs. Miranda soon disappears (taking possession of the body of her cat - still chainsmoking) and her daughter Priscilla (Barbara Carrera) comes to visit.Other screen veterans that appear in minor parts in the movie include Evelyn Keyes and Seymour Cassel....
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Best Defense is a comedy starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1984 by Paramount Pictures.
It was judged to be so bad that the studio re-worked it and created a part for Eddie Murphy who was at the peak of his popularity. Murphy's part was almost unconnected with the rest of the film and his character almost never came into contact with the main cast (the parallel plots that were the film's weakness are discussed below). Murphy would later joke about taking that role when he hosted Saturday Night Live that his reaction to being offered the role was "This script sucks, man! Oh, THAT much money? Let's go!"
It was also the second programme shown on Westcountry Television.
The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by several years: Moore is an engineer developing a targeting system on an a tank for the United States Army and Murphy is an American tank commander who finds himself forced to use the vehicle years later when Iraq invades Kuwait (an...
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